Pluto

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Discovered in 1930 by U.S astronomer Clyde Tombaugh. It originaly was a planet and was 9th from the sun and was the smallest planet in the solar system. Today pluto is a __**dwarf planet:**__ orbits the sun just like any other planet, unlike real planets, dwarf planets do not have enough gravity to attract all of the space dust and objects in its path. Also they are typicaly much smaller. Pluto is about 40 times farthur from the sun than Earth is. Pluto is anout 1,400 miles wide, that is about one half the width of the United States. It takes Pluto 248 Earth-years to revolve around the sun and about six and a half days to rotate. Pluto has three moons; Charon, Nix and Hydra. Pluto's temperature ranges from about 375 to 400 degrees below zero. Because of the extreem cold the surface is most likely ice and frost. A spacecraft called the New Horizons was launched in 2006 and should reach pluto in about 2015. Not even the Hubble Telescope can get an accurate picture of Pluto.

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 * [[image:http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/Size_Comparison_2011_th.jpg width="220" height="165" caption="Scale" link="http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?Category=Planets&IM_ID=11943"]] || [[image:http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/Tilted_Eris_th.jpg width="159" height="119" caption="Tilted Eris" link="http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?Category=Planets&IM_ID=10196"]] || A photo of Pluto from the Hubble Telescope which shows how hard it is to get a clear picture of the planet.

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 * [[image:http://galenet.galegroup.com/images/itkids/pct/00220807.jpg width="300" height="225" caption="Image of "Pluto and its Moons""]] ||  ||   ||

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 * Your Source List: NASA for Kids: Index of Topics,** nineplanets.org, Kid InfoBits,

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 * Mt topic is Pluto**
 * State the focus of your research: General information of Pluto**

**Notes** Discovered in 1930 by U.S astronomer Clyde Tombaugh. It originaly was a planet and was 9th from the sun and was the smallest planet in the solar system. Today pluto is a __**dwarf planet:**__ orbits the sun just like any other planet, unlike real planets, dwarf planets do not have enough gravity to attract all of the space dust and objects in its path. Also they are typicaly much smaller. Pluto is about 40 times farthur from the sun than Earth is. Pluto is anout 1,400 miles wide, that is about one half the width of the United States. It takes Pluto 248 Earth-years to revolve around the sun and about six and a half days to rotate. Pluto has three moons; Charon, Nix and Hydra. Pluto's temperature ranges from about 375 to 400 degrees below zero. Because of the extreem cold the surface is most likely ice and frost. A spacecraft called the New Horizons was launched in 2006 and should reach pluto in about 2015. Not even the Hubble Telescope can get an accurate picture of Pluto.